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Curriculum: Second Grade
SECOND GRADE WEBSITES
Aerospace Curriculum

A.  Como Planetarium-Directions

B.  Booklet Stories

C.  Book- Airplane dot-to-dot

D.  Book-Vol. 1-Early Days of Flight
www.dot.state.mn.us/aero/aved/publications/   Find this book volume and other publications here.  Will need Acrobatto download books.

E.  FOSS-Weather (Weather Research Booklet)
http://fossweb.com/modulesK-2/AirandWeather/index.html  FOSS website with Air and Weather Module for K-2 students.
http://pittsford.monroe.edu/jefferson/calfieri/weather/weathermain.html    Student’s site about weather.
http://www.weather.com/    Search for weather info. in any City or State.
http://www.ucar.edu/40th/webweather/    Web weather for kids.  A nice resource.
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/edu/bm/bm_main.html    Billy and Maria’s weather coloring book.

F.  Parachutes
http://www.aero.com/publications/parachutes/parachut.htm    Numerous information on Parachute.

G. Shuttle-Introductory
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/ssa/docs/Space.Shuttle/index.shtml    Select components of the space shuttle and learn about it.  Use asresource.
Reading material may be too difficult for second grade students.
HowStuff Works-Space Shuttle    Explore how a space shuttleworks.  Nice graphics and information for students.

H.  Aerospace Pioneers- Bessie Coleman
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flygirls/peopleevents/pandeAMEX02.html    Biography of her life.  Use as resource for students.
http://www.ninety-nines.org/coleman.html    Biography of her life.  Use as resource for students.
http://www.bessiecoleman.com/    Official website for Bessie Coleman.
http://www.dot.state.mn.us/aero/aved/publications/skyslimit/bessie.html    Brief overview of Bessie Coleman’s life.

I.  Speaker-Commercial Pilot, Meteorologist
http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/career/meteorologist.html    Careers in Earth Science.
http://schoolscience.rice.edu/duker/winstruments.html    Instruments that meteorologist use to help gather data.
http://www.wic-kid.com/features.htm    Read an interview with a TWA pilot. The questions are written for kids,by kids. Many fun activities, as well as, enriching resource for both teachers and students.

J.  Field Trip-MSP Airport/HHH Terminal
http://www.mspairport.com/msp/    Information about Minneapolis/St. Paul airport and the Metropolitan AirportsCommission.

K.  Flight Dictionary
http://www.wic-kid.com/glossary.htm    Great dictionary resources.

L.  Additional Websites:
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/magazines/white/0,6408,97895,00.html   Information about the astronaut spacesuit.